Unknown Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE AFGHI JKLME NOJPL QORMS EQTSO KUTDM VQWAS| Out of the dry days | A |
| through the dusty leaves | B |
| far across the valley | C |
| those few notes never | D |
| heard here before | E |
| - | |
| one fluted phrase | A |
| floating over its | F |
| wandering secret | G |
| all at once wells up | H |
| somewhere else | I |
| - | |
| and is gone before it | J |
| goes on fallen into | K |
| its own echo leaving | L |
| a hollow through the air | M |
| that is dry as before | E |
| - | |
| where is it from | N |
| hardly anyone | O |
| seems to have noticed it | J |
| so far but who now | P |
| would have been listening | L |
| - | |
| it is not native here | Q |
| that may be the one | O |
| thing we are sure of | R |
| it came from somewhere | M |
| else perhaps alone | S |
| - | |
| so keeps on calling for | E |
| no one who is here | Q |
| hoping to be heard | T |
| by another of its own | S |
| unlikely origin | O |
| - | |
| trying once more the same few | K |
| notes that began the song | U |
| of an oriole last heard | T |
| years ago in another | D |
| existence there | M |
| - | |
| it goes again tell | V |
| no one it is here | Q |
| foreign as we are | W |
| who are filling the days | A |
| with a sound of our own | S |
William Stanley Merwin
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